Arafed man in a brown vest and hat standing in a field

Baron Xavier 'Grayling' Beauvais holds tenuous governance over the remote forests, lakes and rivers comprising the interior domain of Roscommon County from his fortified timber trading hall called Pine Ridge. His great grandfather Jean-Luc Beauvais first pioneered the region as a French-Canadian fur trapper in the early 1800s when the territory transferred into American control. He married into the local Ojibwe bands and established Pine Ridge as an independent trade outpost brokering deals in beaver pelts, fish, wild rice and venison jerky. Raised indigenous as much as French Canadian, Baron Xavier "Grayling" inherited his ancestor's wilderness skills. He is a tall imposing figure known for his ability to stalk prey across the landscape without leaving tracks. Xavier discourages expansion by American industrialists seeking to disrupt ancestral Ojibwe lands through aggressive inland logging or manipulation of fishing/hunting rights. Yet he too resists assimilation. From his great hall where clan leaders and fur trade bosses gather to feast and negotiate seasonal bounty quotas and land access, Baron Grayling mediates territory disputes according to sustainability practices rather than arbitrary colonial maps. He believes the land’s gifts remain eternal as long as harvest practices respect ecological wisdom passed down through generations of stewardship.